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the tech right suddenly discovers due process

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 1 day ago • 643 comments

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

The attacks on our educational system and universities is entirely by design. We need to stand up against these efforts.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth will never be a fraction as courageous as Harvey Milk was. Not even close. The supposed superiority of a live dog to a dead lion. I’d say “Fuck Pete Hegseth” but just being Pete Hegseth is obviously already humiliation enough.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

submitted 3 days ago • 517 comments

A core sin of corporate capitalism is that it demands we build our lives around ensuring we save the best of ourselves for work. Not for our families or ourselves. We show up at home exhausted and stressed, but we’re expected to be bright eyed and bushy tailed each morning at work.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

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Dark TACO.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My message for Pride Month 2025 boils down to: Protect the Dolls It’s never been about securing rights for ME, and screwing anyone else. It’s a belief that all humans are entitled to ALL human rights granted to any other humans. And if they’re not, none of us deserve them.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Even if they themselves are not involved, how can any ICE employee look their children in the eyes after seeing these videos of officers arresting asylum seekers in front of their families who were just following the rules? How rancid must your soul be to agree to be a part of this organization?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is what destroying the Republican Party with FACTS sounds like. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

New entry in my attempt at a series of appreciations for obscure takes on writing. Yeah…I am no one’s idea of an effective publicist. 😜

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Someone should set up a phone line to contact if you were helped in some way by an immigrant. I bet it would get a lot more calls than this ridiculous and offensive ICE line.

submitted 7 days ago • 274 comments

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

submitted 7 days ago • 140 comments

What kind of country do MAGA think we'll have when this purge is over. Do they expect the repugnant cruelty they're endorsing to somehow suddenly be replaced by brotherly love? For Americans and others around the world having their lives ripped apart by these actions to "just get over it"?

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ICE officials grabbing immigrants out of courthouses who are there for asylum hearings should be marched naked to the sea with all the nation’s children and elderly shouting “Shame!” at them over and over. You’re supposed to be rounding up dangerous criminals. Quit your jobs, you soulless cowards!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

So…commit any crime you like…so long as you can pony up $1 million to bribe Trump with…and buy yourself a pardon. What an uplifting message he’s sending to America’s youth.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy is messy. Sometimes really messy, and dangerously close to imploding. But I’ve had the privilege to live under it my entire life due in no small part to people willing to risk their lives to preserve this country and what it is and aspires to be. Grateful on the Memorial Day.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

submitted 11 days ago • 448 comments

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

submitted 14 days ago • 537 comments

MAGA in a nutshell:

submitted 13 days ago • 107 comments

This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.

submitted 15 days ago • 219 comments

Come on people!! If habeas corpus, as the dog murdering Sec of Homeland Security insisted, was “the president’s constitutional right to deport people,” why the fuck would Trump’s Renfieldish reptile, Stephen Miller, want to suspend it? Congresscritters and journalists.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

They have you busy fighting a gender war to keep you from fighting a class war.

submitted 18 days ago • 394 comments

I don't understand how jails can get government contracts that pay for each person they take in, but hospitals can't.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

You can have trials about coups?!

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

He is completely clueless about what he is doing.

submitted 19 days ago • 1050 comments

I’m not opposed to wealth. I’m opposed to wealth being used to control others involuntarily. Hoard as much $ as you want, spend it satisfying your every whim, but do not use it to buy power over those who don’t agree with your worldview. You get 1 vote. This is an “Anti-Citizens-United” rant, btw.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“He knew exactly what that meant,” Mr. Trump said. “A child knows what that meant.” A child also knows that Trump claiming, “what should happen to Mr. Comey[…] should be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi” doesn’t mean he won’t direct her or she won’t do exactly what he tells her to.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Help me here: why is anyone in the US, up to the POTUS, allowed to call the death of 50+ White farmers over several years a “genocide” without any consequences, but calling the death of tens of thousands of Gazans a “genocide” gets you arrested, or your diploma withheld, etc.?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“Can we just give you our bribes and go home?” Jordan Klepper, on ”The Daily Show,” describing everyone listening to Trump drone on insanely in the Middle East. youtu.be/U7X1kZZnD8c?...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The right-wing’s Schrödinger's-cat-like position on embryonic personhood (where it’s both a person—for purported moral purposes—but not a person—for politicofinancial purposes) explains why they’re so anti-choice. They seemingly can’t make one.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Trashy. Tacky. Tawdry. Trumpy. Dystopian.

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